A Meissen porcelain tea caddy with Watteau motifs
A Meissen porcelain tea caddy with Watteau motifs
Angular tea caddy painted with figures of pilgrims after Antoine Watteau in tri-colour camaieu. Smoothed base with blue crossed swords mark, 6 in brown, dreher's mark. H 10.2 cm, with a replaced parcel-gilt silver stopper.
Around 1740 - 50.
Provenance
Private collection, Westphalia, acquired in 1969 from Adolf Meyer, Hamburg.
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A Meissen porcelain tea caddy with Watteau motifs
Angular tea caddy painted with figures of pilgrims after Antoine Watteau in tri-colour camaieu. Smoothed base with blue crossed swords mark, 6 in brown, dreher's mark. H 10.2 cm, with a replaced parcel-gilt silver stopper.
Around 1740 - 50.
Provenance
Private collection, Westphalia, acquired in 1969 from Adolf Meyer, Hamburg.
